Drag Quotes - Page 23

• The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

  Lance Morrow

  Anchorman, Media, Cameras

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• Most women, when they ask me for beauty tips aren't really prepared for my answer, which is, there is no magic beauty wand that can transform you and make you beautiful. It takes practice and what you see on Rupaul's Drag Race is years and years of practice.

  RuPaul

  Beautiful, Race, Years

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• As gay people, we always think outside of the box. The irreverent is always important to a drag queen and anyone else who lives outside the box. And this is why drag's important: remember to not take life seriously. It's always important to see the laughter in the illusion that we pretend is real.

  RuPaul

  Queens, Laughter, Real

  "T Lo Interviews The One and Only RuPaul". tomandlorenzo.com. March 03, 2009.

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• It's unclear who moves first. We're in each other's arms, lips locked, melded, hotly fused. Our hands drag over each other, reacquainting, remembering, almost as if we're both verifying the other one is real flesh and blood.

  Sophie Jordan

  Real, Moving, Blood

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• Clearly, high energy prices will have a large negative effect on the California economy and could possibly drag the rest of the nation into a recession.

  Doug Ose

  California, Energy, Negative

  "CNN Newsroom", www.cnn.com. April 11, 2001.

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• The crisis in Europe has affected the US economy by acting as a drag on our exports, weighing on business and consumer confidence and pressuring US financial markets and institutions.

  Ben Bernanke

  Europe, Acting, Financial

  "China digs its heels in as Europe crisis deepens". "The World Today" with Emily Bourke, www.abc.net.au. June 8, 2012.

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• If you don't have to drag yourself off the field exhausted after 90 minutes, you can't claim to have done your best.

  Bill Nichols

  Spurs, Done, Fields

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• Like most kids, my dad played. He would drag us out to the course and make us shag balls for him and caddy and all that kind of stuff.

  Tom Lehman

  Dad, Kids, Balls

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• When you invest your time and energy in stuff that drags you down, you die a little bit every day.

  Alan Cohen

  Stuff, Energy, Littles

  Alan Cohen (2007). “Why Your Life Sucks: And What You Can Do About It”, p.67, Bantam

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• I know life sometimes can get tough! And I know life sometimes can be a drag! But people, we have been given a gift, We have been given a road, And that road's name is... Rock and Roll!

  Paul Stanley

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Names

  "Song: God Gave Rock 'N' Roll To You II (Revenge)". August 22, 1991.

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• Sometimes your dreams come true, and its a real drag.

  Kyle Kinane

  Dream, Real, Sometimes

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• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House”, p.251, Open Road Media

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• Learn to recognize the counterfeit coins that may buy you just a moment of pleasure,
  But then drag you for days like a broken man behind a farting camel.

  Hafez

  Men, Broken, Camels

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• I love drag queens and I love going to see them perform because those people have got so much character and bravery. Such balls! I love people with balls.

  Elton John

  Queens, Character, People

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• A man's real faith is never contained in his creed, nor is his creed an article of his faith. The last is never adopted. This it is that permits him to smile ever, and to live even as bravely as he does. And yet he clings anxiously to his creed, as to a straw, thinking that that does him good service because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Real, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• The coward wants resolution, which the brave man can do without. He recognizes no faith above a creed, thinking this straw by which he is moored does him good service, because his sheet anchor does not drag.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Faith, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau, Bradford Torrey, Franklin Benjamin Sanborn (1906). “Cape Cod and Miscellanies”

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• The moon has nothing to be sad about,
  Staring from her hood of bone.
  She is used to this sort of thing.
  Her blacks crackle and drag.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Darkness, Bones

  Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.224, Faber & Faber

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• The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
  Cruelly, being barren.
  Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Light, Radiance

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.18, Faber & Faber

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• unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
  of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
  Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
  useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Boredom, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Don't drag candidates through weeks of endless interviews. Don't flake out on interviews. At DeveloperAuction, we often have offer letters prepared in advance, so we can hand them to great candidates as they are leaving the office.

  Matt Mickiewicz

  Hands, Office, Leaving

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• Some men live with an invisible limp,
  stagger, or drag
  a leg. Their sons are often angry.

  Robert Bly

  Son, Men, Legs

  Robert Bly (1981). “The man in the black coat turns: poems”

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• To drag a man in fetters into the grand illuminated temple of liberty, and call upon him to join you in joyous anthems, were inhuman mockery and sacrilegious irony.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Liberty, Temples

  What to the Slave is the 4th of July?, delivered 4 July 1852

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• The scorn directed against drags is especially virulent; they have become the outcasts of gay life, the "queers" of homosexuality.In fact, they are classic scapegoats. Our old fears about our sissiness, still with us though masked by the new macho fascism, are now located, isolated, quarantined through our persecution of the transvestite.

  Edmund White

  Gay, Facts, Classic

  Edmund White (2014). “States of Desire Revisited: Travels in Gay America”, p.51, University of Wisconsin Pres

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• That's what I like about [smoking] . . . taking a drag off of death, Mmm! Gives me a sense of controlling my own destiny. What power! What exhilaration! Want a drag?

  Beth Henley

  Destiny, Giving, Smoking

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• Work is not a drag for me. I like to get here early, hang out, catch up with the boys. I'll go in the cage and hit, do my exercises. I try to keep it fun and find ways to enjoy it.

  Carlos Delgado

  Fun, Exercise, Boys

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